The patch titled Subject: procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers This patch brings ability to print out auxiliary data associated with file in procfs interface /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd. In particular further patches make eventfd, evenpoll, signalfd and fsnotify to print additional information complete enough to restore these objects after checkpoint. To simplify the code we add show_fdinfo callback inside struct file_operations (as Al and Pavel are proposing). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/fd.c | 2 ++ include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/proc/fd.c~procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers fs/proc/fd.c --- a/fs/proc/fd.c~procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers +++ a/fs/proc/fd.c @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ static int seq_show(struct seq_file *m, if (!ret) { seq_printf(m, "pos:\t%lli\nflags:\t0%o\n", (long long)file->f_pos, f_flags); + if (file->f_op->show_fdinfo) + ret = file->f_op->show_fdinfo(m, file); fput(file); } diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1517,6 +1517,8 @@ struct block_device_operations; #define HAVE_COMPAT_IOCTL 1 #define HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL 1 +struct seq_file; + struct file_operations { struct module *owner; loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int); @@ -1545,6 +1547,7 @@ struct file_operations { int (*setlease)(struct file *, long, struct file_lock **); long (*fallocate)(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len); + int (*show_fdinfo)(struct seq_file *m, struct file *f); }; struct inode_operations { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch proc-check-vma-vm_file-before-dereferencing.patch procfs-add-vmflags-field-in-smaps-output-v4.patch procfs-add-vmflags-field-in-smaps-output-v4-fix.patch proc-pid-status-add-seccomp-field.patch procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers.patch procfs-add-ability-to-plug-in-auxiliary-fdinfo-providers-fix.patch fs-exportfs-avoid-nil-dereference-if-no-s_export_op-present.patch fs-notify-add-file-handle-entry-into-inotify_inode_mark.patch fs-notify-add-procfs-fdinfo-helper.patch fs-eventfd-add-procfs-fdinfo-helper.patch fs-epoll-add-procfs-fdinfo-helper.patch fdinfo-show-sigmask-for-signalfd-fd.patch tools-testing-selftests-kcmp-kcmp_testc-print-reason-for-failure-in-kcmp_test.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html